Side Effects / The Bitter Pill (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Starring: Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Vinessa Shaw, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Director: Steven Soderbergh
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Open Road (2013)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Where will the road take her? Angie is a free spirit living on her own terms and occasionally waitressing to make money. But when she makes connections with a drifter, a handsome cop, and his sister , she finds herself torn between her life of absolute freedom and being tied to people who care about her. Beautifully filmed and acted, it's an inspiring film about love in all its many forms.
Starring: Camilla Belle, Andy Garcia, Juliette Lewis, Colin Egglesfield, John Savage, Ingrid Rogers
Director: Marcio Garcia
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And Now a Word from Our Sponsor (2013)
Comedy | Drama
An advertising CEO wakes up in the hospital speaking only in ad slogans.
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Parker Posey, Callum Blue, Allie MacDonald, Rhys Ward
Director: Zack Bernbaum
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The Condemned / Los condenados (2012)
Mystery
Determined to restore her dying father's reputation, Ana travels to the remote town of Rosales. Decades ago, he settled there and opened his first free clinic for cancer research. He launched an illustrious medical career – and fell in love. Ana plans to celebrate her father's scientific and humanitarian achievements by transforming the old family mansion into a world-class museum. She will preserve his legacy, and also breathe new life into the forgotten Rosales. But the townspeople-now destitute and helpless-do not greet her warmly. Neither does the house.
Starring: René Monclova, Cristina Rodlo, Axel Anderson, Rocky Venegas, Luz Odilea Font, Marisé Alvarez, Dolores Pedro, Jana L. Torres Diaz
Director: Roberto Busó-García
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Revenge for Jolly! (2012)
Comedy | Drama
REVENGE FOR JOLLY! follows a man (Petsos) who, with the help of his cousin (Oscar Isaac), seeks to avenge the death of his beloved dog, who was killed under confusing and suspicious circumstances. The two men follow a series of clues in an attempt to track down the dog's murderer, leaving a path of destruction in their wake.
Starring: Brian Petsos, Oscar Isaac, Elijah Wood, Ryan Phillippe, Kristen Wiig, Adam Brody, Gillian Jacobs
Director: Chadd Harbold
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North Country (2005)
Drama
A semi-fictionalized account of a long legal battle of group of women miners who endured a hostile work environment and numerous and continuous insults and unwanted touching when they became the first women to go work at the Eveleth Mines in Minnesota.
Starring: Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sissy Spacek, Woody Harrelson, Sean Bean, Jeremy Renner
Director: Niki Caro
The Body / El cuerpo (2012)
Thriller
A detective searches for the body of a femme fatale which has gone missing from a morgue.
Starring: Belén Rueda, Hugo Silva, Aura Garrido, José Coronado, Oriol Vila
Director: Oriol Paulo
Lucky You (2007)
Drama | Romance | Sport
In Las Vegas, Huck Cheever is a poker player, brilliant but also prone to let emotion take over. It's the week of the poker world series, and Huck must come up with the $10,000 entry fee, which he wins, loses, borrows, and loses – and even steals part of from Billie Offer, an earnest young woman who's new in town and who catches Huck's eye. By the time the tournament starts, Huck owes everyone. Complicating things is the arrival of Huck's father, whom Huck detests for having left his mother, a champion player in town to win. Can Huck learn to play poker the way he lives and to live the way he plays poker? Or is his only flush the sound of his life going down the toilet?
Starring: Phyllis Somerville, Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, Horatio Sanz, Joey Kern, Debra Messing, Delaine Yates, Mykel Shannon Jenkins, Robert Duvall, Charles Martin Smith, Robert Downey Jr.
Director: Curtis Hanson
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
Drama | History | War
In 1920, rural Ireland is the permanent battlefield of republican rebels against the British troops and their well-paid, local collaborator militia, a recipe for mutual cruelty. Medical graduate Damien O'Donovan always gave priority to his socialist ideals and simply helping people in need. Just when he's leaving Ireland to work in a highly reputed London hospital, witnessing gross abuse of commoners changes his mind. he returns and joins the local IRA brigade, commanded by his brother Teddy, and adopts the merciless logic of civil war, while Teddy mellows by experiencing first-hand endless suffering. When IRA leaders negotiate an autonomous Free State under the British crown, Teddy defends the pragmatic best possible deal at this stage. Damien however joins the large seceding faction which holds nothing less then a socialist republic will do. The result is another civil war, bloodily opposing former Irish comrades in arms, even the brothers.
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald, Mary O'Riordan, Mary Murphy
Director: Ken Loach
Great Expectations (1998)
Drama | Romance
Modernization of Charles Dickens classic story finds the hapless Finn as a painter in New York pursuing his unrequited and haughty childhood love.
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hank Azaria, Chris Cooper, Anne Bancroft, Robert De Niro, Raquel Beaudene
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Affliction (1997)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Wade Whitehouse is a sheriff of a small New Hampshire town who achieved nothing in life in the opinion of his ex-wife Lillian and daughter Jill and is a heavy drinker. His girlfriend Margie accepts him the way he is. On the first day of the hunting season, Wade's friend Jack takes a wealthy businessman to hunt – and only Jack returns alive. Wade decides to play detective and starts investigating the case despite the fact Jack insists it was an accidental self-inflicted shot.
Starring: Nick Nolte, Brigid Tierney, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Willem Dafoe
Director: Paul Schrader
The Next Karate Kid (1994)
Action | Drama | Family | Romance | Sport
Mr. Miyagi is back and he takes a new pupil under his wing, a troubled teenage girl.
Starring: Pat Morita, Hilary Swank, Michael Ironside, Constance Towers, Walton Goggins
Director: Christopher Cain
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
Drama | Romance | War
A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, Bill Kerr
Director: Peter Weir
One Hour Photo (2002)
Drama | Thriller
A mentally unbalanced photo development clerk becomes obsessed with a picture-perfect suburban family.
Starring: Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Dylan Smith, Erin Daniels, Lee Garlington
Director: Mark Romanek
Unaccompanied Minors (2006)
Adventure | Comedy | Family
Spencer and his little sister, Katherine, are flying to Pennsylvania for Christmas with their dad. While changing planes, a blizzard moves in and cancels all flights out of Hoover Airport: they must stay in a basement room with the other unaccompanied minors. Spencer and four others – a chubby boy, a non-stop-talker, a surly girl, and a rich kid – go AWOL and get in trouble with Mr. Porter, the Christmas-hating airport supervisor. The five misfits spend the night evading and enduring Porter's punishments, discovering all sorts of things in back rooms, making sure Katherine gets her visit from Santa, and finding among themselves a new kind of family.
Starring: Tyler James Williams, Dyllan Christopher, Gia Mantegna, Lewis Black, Wilmer Valderrama, Brett Kelly, Quinn Shephard, Paget Brewster
Director: Paul Feig
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
A Persian/Arabian sailor named Sinbad is on a quest to find the magical legendary Book of Peace, a mysterious artifact that Eris, the Greek wicked goddess of chaos, has ultimately framed him for stealing! If he fails on this quest, his childhood friend Prince Proteus of Syracuse will take Sindbad's death penalty, while Eris gains a desired foothold of power in the world of mortals.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer, Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert
Director: Patrick Gilmore, Tim Johnson
The Numbers Station (2013)
Action | Thriller
When the moral values of a longtime wetwork black ops agent is tested during his last operation, he receives an unfavorable psych evaluation. Now he is given a break and a seemingly uncomplicated assignment of simply protecting the security of a young female code announcer, code resources and remote station they are assigned to. After an ambush and one phone call later, it becomes a complicated fight for their survival.
Starring: Malin Akerman, John Cusack, Liam Cunningham, Hannah Murray, Lucy Griffiths, Joey Ansah, Richard Brake
Director: Kasper Barfoed
Mean Girls (2004)
Comedy
Raised in the African bush country by her zoologist parents, Cady (Lindsay Lohan) thinks she knows all about the "survival of the fittest." But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when the home-schooled 15-year-old enters public high school for the first time.
Trying to find her place among jocks, athletes and other subcultures, Cady crosses paths with the meanest species of all – the Queen Bee, aka the cool and calculating Regina (Rachel McAdams), leader of the school's most fashionable clique, The Plastics. When Cady falls fro Regina's ex-boyfriend, though, the Queen Bee is stung – and she schemes to ruin Cady's social future. Cady's own claws soon come out as she leaps into a hilarious "Girl World" war that has the whole school running for cover.
Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey, Tim Meadows, Amy Poehler, Ana Gasteyer
Director: Mark S. Waters
Mean Girls 2 (2011)
Comedy
Johanna "Jo" Mitchell is a 17-year-old tomboy, who lives with her father, who works as a race car driver for NASCAR. The first day of school, she explains that she wants to avoid high school drama, and already knows some of the mean-spirited cliques to expect when going to North Shore High School.
Starring: Meaghan Martin, Donn Lamkin, Linden Ashby, Dan Coleman, Claire Holt, Patrick Johnson, Colin Dennard, Maiara Walsh, Nicole Gale Anderson
Director: Melanie Mayron
Running on Empty (1988)
Crime | Drama | Music | Romance
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Today, their eldest son wants a life of his own although he is aware that would mean that his parents would either get caught or he will never see them again.
Starring: River Phoenix, Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch, Martha Plimpton, Steven Hill
Director: Sidney Lumet
